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Rehabilitate
Rehabilitate, means to restore credibility to (a witness or testimony), People v. Page, 550 NE 2d 248 (1990). Rehabilitate, to restore a delinquent to former rank, privilege, or right; to qualify again; to restore a forfeited...
Expert witness
Expert witness, an 'expert' is not a 'witness' of fact. His evidence is really of an advisory character. The duty of an 'expert witness' is to furnish the Judge with the necessary scientific criteria for testing...
Hearing
Hearing, an investigation of a controversy. See TRIAL. A judicial session, usu. open to the public, held for purpose of deciding issues of fact or of law, sometimes with witnesses testifying, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,...
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Justified by law
Justified by law, 'justified' according to Black's Legal Dictionary means: Done on adequate reasons sufficiently supported by credible evidence, when weighed by unprejudiced mind, guided by common sense and by correct rules of law. The Shorter
Bill of sale
Bill of sale, an assignment by deed of chattels personal, whether absolute or by way of security. See Twyne's case, (1602) 3 Rep. 80 [44 Eliz.], and 1 Sm. L. C. 1 et seq., where the...
Special constables
persons appointed by justices of the peace to assist in keeping the peace 'on the oath of a credible witness that any tumult, riot, or felony has taken place or may be reasonably apprehended in any parish,
Blasphemy
to be of divine authority,' and is convicted thereof on indictment by the oath of two or more credible witnesses. The punishment is, for a first offence, disability for and forfeiture of any office 'ecclesiastical, civil, or
fishing expedition
An investigation searching for evidence of wrongdoing with no credible evidence of such wrongdoing available at the outset of the investigation and often without specifying in advance the
Amittere legem terr', or liberam legem
Amittere legem terr', or liberam legem, to lose the liberty of being sworn in any Court. but by 6 & 7 Vict. c. 85, persons who were previously excluded from giving evidence by incapacity arising from...
Likely
Worthy of belief probable credible as a likely story
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